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The only visible rubric is in red. There is musical notation with neumes
in campo aperto. Part of the text is now almost illegible. It consists of
part of the Holy Thursday and Good Friday liturgy, cf. MN, pp. 194-
95:
[In Cena Domini... Ev. (Ioh. 13, 1-15) Ante diem festum pasche... et uos]
Uh debetis alter alterius lauare pedes... ita et uos faciatis.
(Offert.) Dextera domini fecit uirtutem... (with neumes).
(Seer.) Ipse tibi quesumus domine. ..
Communicantes et diem [sacratissimam uenerantes] quo dominus noster
ihesus christus [pro nobis] traditus est sed et memoriam.
Hane igitur oblationem seruitutis nostre.. . quam tibi offerimus... ut placa-
tus accipias. Diesque nostros.
[Qui] pridie quam pateretur (expunet.) pro nostra omniumque salute
pateretur hoc est hodie accepit panem in sanetas ac uenerabiles/ (lac.)
(l)v Agnus dei qui tollis. Sine osculo pacis.
(Com.) Dominus ihesus postquam cenauit... (with neumes).
(Postcom.) [Refecti] uitalibus alimentis. ..
(In Parasceue).
(Lee.) In tribulatione sua mane consurgent ad me; Uenite... Propter hoc
dolui/ (Os. 6, 1-5).
The Sæmundr Ormsson Missal Fragment
This missal fragment, the recto side of a single leaf, has survived
thanks to the legal doeument entered on its verso, a decree (skipan)
issued by the chieftain Sæmundr Ormsson, c. 1245 = Copenhagen
AM Dipi. Isl. Fase. LXV, 1, ed. DI 1, pp. 532-7; faesimile with
transcription in: Palæografisk Atlas. Oldnorsk-islandsk Afdeling. Ed.
K. Kålund (København/Kristiania 1905), no. 47; H. Benediktsson,
Early Icelandic Script, no. 34.
The missal text on the recto is twenty-five lines long, ending below
what must have been mid-page. The written space is 10,5 cm wide,
and to judge from the verso, it must have measured nearly 30 cm from
top to bottom. This long, narrow shape of the page is also a feature of
the leetionary fragment at the end of MS AM 152 fol. (see below, p.
77).
The hand-writing, very professional, was dated to c. 1200 by Kålund.
Considering the length of the staves, the use of the tailed e for ae, and
of the median point for punetuation, we should perhaps place it
somewhat earlier than 1200. See Plate 33. The content is part of the
texts of Holy Saturday, cf. MN, p. 211: